On episode #49 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/14 – 2/27/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• HIV Cure?  (NEJM)
• The effects of HIV-1 antigen-expanded specific T-Cell therapy and vorinostat on persistent infection (JID)
• The burden of HMPV and influenza associated hospitalizations in adults (JID)
• Bacterial
• Length of antibiotic therapy among the hospitalized with uncomplicated pneumonia (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)
• Guideline on fecal microbiota–vased therapies for some gastrointestinal diseases (Gastroenterology)
• Guideline on fecal microbiota–based therapies for recurrent C diff (CIDRAP)
• Reduced vancomycin susceptibility in Clostridioides difficile (CID)
• Fungal
• Histoplasmosisin non-HIV population (OFID)
• Parasitic
• Plasmodium falciparum under the host’s Immune radar(JID)
• Did you hear Artemether-lumefantrine is recommended for uncomplicate malaria CID)
• Miscellaneous
• Uncompensated work in academic infectious diseases, seriously? (CID)
• Invasive mosquito Anopheles stephensi, Ghana (Emerging Infectious Diseases)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees